The Disease in America

I'm having a hard time writing lately, and it's not just because I've fried my keyboard and now have to use an antique of a laptop with dial-up internet, (so old in fact, that it has AOL 4.0 and Windows 98)but because I seem to have lost a lot of my outrage, and feel kind of detached from the things that used to just drive me bat-shit crazy. It's almost as if living in Washington has made me cynical and my expectations of leadership in America have become low enough to expect a certain amount of corruption and dishonesty. New revelations of torture fail to sicken me as they used to, and plans for expanding the Iraq War into Iran don't surprise me. I still go to work every day, I still pay my bills. I still see the train wreck coming, but feel as if we are powerless to stop it. Even if the Democrats take back the legislative branch in November, I wonder if they will have the balls to begin investigations into all of the criminal behavior of the Bush Administration and stop the crazies from taking this country further down the road that leads to our nation's certain demise.

I should feel hopeful that the Bush approval rating has hit the new low of 32 percent, and that Americans are slowly waking up to the peril of a planet that grows warmer each year. I should feel some satisfaction that the revolt of the retired Generals has caught the attention of the mainstream media, but I don't, because the war continues and those who have the power to stop the insanity will not speak out against it. And the two cancers that cause war and the corruption of our elected officials remain intact and untreated, the military industrial complex continues to direct the Pentagon; the White House and Congress are powerless to curb it, and corporate money continues to fund our election process giving those with money a voice in the law making process at the expense of ordinary Americans.

Maybe I need a vacation, but I just had one a few weeks ago. Or maybe I just need to get laid, or falling down drunk.

Maybe.

But what my gut tells me is that things will not really change in America until we get rid of the cancers that eat away at the morality of our nation. We should neutralize the influence of those who profit from war, and take the dirty money out of the election process. Level the playing field and place spending limits on all elections so that not only the rich can get their message out. American is dying of war and greed,we need chemotherapy, and the people running for office are prescribing asprin.

The first stage is denial. The last stage is acceptance.

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